Arcade Fire (music group)

Besides being a prominent New York Times economic columnist and a Princeton professor, Paul Krugman is an avid music fan, and he brought a typically nuanced grasp of top-down economics to the South by the Southwest Music Conference. As music-industry insiders and musicians, including Arcade Fire's Win and Will Butler, discussed the possibilities of post-digital revenue for rising artists at a panel Thursday, Krugman noted one revenue-earning method that has endured for centuries: touring. The economist is a concert-goer, and raved about a South by Southwest performance by the band San Fermin on his blog. But he noted that live performance income is increasingly dominated by a 1...

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